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August 8, 2025
Annual Report 2024-2025 Published
Read our latest annual report - an overview of our activity, performance and highlights for the financial year ending 31 March 2025.
July 29, 2025
Watch Now - The Innovation Circuit: The Breaker and the Builder - Million Dollar Bug Bounties with Ron Chan (Nova Security)
Ron Chan, a prolific bug bounty hunter, was featured in Forbes as one of the elite few to surpass $1 million in rewards from ethical hacking programs. Throughout his career, he's made high-impact submissions to platforms such as Uber, GitLab, Yahoo, Google, PayPal and Spotify. Fast forward to 2025, Ron uses his exceptional skill set to help New Zealand organisations identify and address security vulnerabilities - now serving as Principal Consultant at Nova Security.
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April 11, 2024
Upgrading from Microsoft Dynamics NAV to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Cloud?
The triggers for moving to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central cloud are commonly around similar themes: flexibility to scale up and down, cost control, better integration with other core systems and tighter security.
February 11, 2019
Two homegrown Microsoft partners join forces
Theta completed the acquisition of Designertech, an Auckland-based tech company, this month. The move sees us expand to 275 staff, with an additional office in Ellerslie complementing our Auckland city office and others in Wellington, Christchurch and Tauranga.
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December 12, 2018
HackMini: Tackling big issues with Minecraft and Mixiply
Last week we worked with an inspiring group of students from Newlands Intermediate at Microsoft's Wellington offices. During the hackathon, students worked with Minecraft Education and Theta’s brand new AR/VR platform, Mixiply to develop a prototype app, game or activity to benefit their community.
December 4, 2018
#HackMini: MiniDevs, Microsoft, Mixiply & Minecraft
3-7 December 2018 is Computer Science Education Week. What better way to participate than with a hackathon, taking place over three days at Microsoft’s Wellington offices?
November 28, 2018
The real world of artificial intelligence in New Zealand
What’s the artificial intelligence opportunity for New Zealand organisations and are you ready to make the most of it? Louise Francis of IDC presented a real-world update at a recent series of Theta executive briefings in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
October 29, 2018
Blockworks conference shows off the present and future of blockchain
Rose McColl recently attended Blockworks, a one-day gathering of national and international blockchain experts and trailblazers, talking about how blockchain is being used to change the way we do things in business, government, and society, and shares her reflections on the day in this post.
September 7, 2018
Reflections on Southern SaaS: building a connected, collaborative tech community
Rose McColl, from Theta’s innovation lab, attended the inaugural Southern SaaS event in Auckland last week. Here are her reflections on the event.
September 4, 2018
Predicting student outcomes with machine learning
This August, Theta led a machine learning hackathon with flexible online learning service TANZ eCampus. This involved a mixed team of nine participants including IT and business stakeholders from TANZ, along with Theta Analytics consultants Peter George, Konrad Jarocinski and Willem Pelser.
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September 4, 2018
Blockchain, Smart Contracts and Ethereum
Blockchain is another of those “suitcase words” – like artificial intelligence or UX, a term stuffed with multiple meanings. It’s often held up as a signifier of innovation, and is seen by many as the door to a distributed, decentralised internet, and a solution to almost any technological problem. What ‘blockchain’ actually is can be harder to decipher.
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August 14, 2018
Invitation to our cyber security update. Learn how hackers are constantly changing their attack methods and how you can stop them.
Hackers are constantly adapting their attack techniques to get through your cyber defences. Legacy approaches and technologies are no longer adequate and no organisation is entirely safe from attack. How do you ensure your defences evolve with current and future attack methods and what options do you have if you are breached?
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July 20, 2018
NAVigate – your guide to harnessing the power of the cloud through Dynamics 365 Business Central
Save time, money and resources by harnessing the power of a Microsoft finance and ERP solution in the cloud. The features and versatility of Microsoft Dynamics NAV are now available on a fully hosted monthly subscription through newly released Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Whether you’re an existing Dynamics NAV user or you are considering replacing your existing finance and ERP system, this event is for you.